Marti,
Have you tried running a few of the clean up options manually first??.
Start by cleaning out the "Temporary Internet Files" folder, then do a search for "*.tmp" (without the quotes) and delete all of the .tmp files on the computer. Next, open "My Computer", then RIGHT click on the C drive, choose 'Properties'. When that loads, click on the "Tools" tab, and choose to run the "Error Checking" option. When the little box loads, place a CHECK in BOTH boxes, then click OK. When the computer tells you that you must restart the computer to run that option, choose OK and restart the computer. Upon reboot the Error Checking program will automatically run. AFter it's finished, (it takes a little while to accomplish it's task), then follow the same path to the "Tools" tab and run Disk Defragmenter.
Hope this helps fix the problem.
Grif
I have a 4 month old Compaq Presario S5300NX using Windows XP Home Edition. It has 2.5GHz Intel Pentium 4. Disk Cleanup just does not respond. The box that figures how much space you can save comes up, but doesn't do anything. It worked until this week. Help!! (Please)

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